Address Books as Detection Terms?

[toolworker]

I use address books as filter elements to route incoming emails to the correct folder. If Correct Identity could accept an address book as a detection term, it would use the correct identity for all those people. And adding an address to an address book would also add it to the detection terms.

[ldreier]

Hi,

I made some test implementation for your address-book proposal and pushed some changes to this repository.
For testing you could use correct_identity_latest.xpi.

As an example you can add the following line to the text field:
addressbook="Test Address Book"

The string in quotes is the name of the address book as given in the
address book pane. Can be copied from address book properties.

Please check if this covers your idea...

[toolworker]

Thanks, Dennis! This is fantastically useful!

One problem - when there are two address books specified, it only searches the first one. I think it stops searching after that. But even with that bug, it's very useful. I just place the address book last in the list.

[ldreier]

The problem should be fixed now ... removed one line of code.
Updated correct_identity_latest.xpi.

[WalZyl]

I'm just curious if the address-book feature works in the the version 2.3.2 ? Actually, for me it stopped to work after March, 6th, 2024. It was, is and will be so useful !!

[toolworker]

I love this feature! But it's not working now for me either in 2.3.2. I backed out to a version Dennis gave me last fall and that one does work.

[WalZyl]

@ldreier: seems that the address-book feature is not in the main branch (so automatic updates will over-write special versions). Any chance to include it in the main branch of this add-on ?

[ldreier]

@toolworker , @WalZyl
The "address-book feature" was not part of version 2.3.2 (which was released in June 2023).
I plan to start the release process for a new version in the next days after fixing the uppercase/lowercase issue for the pattern matching.